1215262 - Prompt to enable tab queues not shown if no default browser set

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Firefox for Android Nightly 44.0a1 2015-10-15 and Beta 42.0b6 on Nexus S with Android 4.1.2

Opening several urls from external applications in Firefox doesn't trigger the prompt to use the tab queues, i.e. open the urls as tabs when the user switches to Firefox. Tried this with several applications and opened up to 6 urls. This should happen after 3 urls. about:buildconfig lists the used API as 11.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Wipe all data for the app from System settings > Apps > Nightly/Firefox Beta
2. Open 5 urls from a different app, e.g. a feed or news reader.
Actual result:
Prompt not shown.
Expected result:
Prompt shown.

The UI for tab queue is visible in the preferences and enabling it modifies the behavior like desired.

Comment 1

[:Margaret Leibovic]

Sebastian, do you know what's going on here?

Comment 2

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

(In reply to :Margaret Leibovic from comment #1)
> Sebastian, do you know what's going on here?

Not yet. I see the prompt on my devices. But I'll try with an Android 4.1 emulator.

Comment 3

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

Attachment: device-2015-10-27-111552.png

I get the prompt on an Android 4.1.2 emulator with Nexus S configuration.

Comment 4

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

mcomella, liuche: Does anyone of you have a Nexus S at hand?

Comment 5

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

Attachment: tp-2015-10-27-112133.png

Arxy: Do you see the tracking protection prompt after loading the first website in private mode? (Nightly)

Comment 6

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

(In reply to Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian) from comment #5)
> Arxy: Do you see the tracking protection prompt after loading the first
> website in private mode? (Nightly)
Yes (with Nightly 2015-10-27).

But nothing after four times tapping and opening a link from an external app.

Comment 7

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian) from comment #4)
> mcomella, liuche: Does anyone of you have a Nexus S at hand?

I have two. I'll let you know how it goes.

Comment 8

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #7)
> (In reply to Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian) from comment #4)
> > mcomella, liuche: Does anyone of you have a Nexus S at hand?
> 
> I have two. I'll let you know how it goes.

D'uh! Both my Nexus S devices are still running Gingerbread, which does not support Tab Queues.

Comment 9

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

(In reply to Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) from comment #8)
> D'uh! Both my Nexus S devices are still running Gingerbread, which does not
> support Tab Queues.

Are you interested in updating one of them? The factory images are still available:
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images?hl=en#soju

Comment 10

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

Attachment: tabqueues-nexus-s.png

I updated one of finkle's Nexus S to Android 4.1.2, installed Firefox 42.0.1 and I can see the prompt after opening four links (All from the messages app).

Comment 11

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

Aryx: Do you still have this problem? It's not reproducible for me; even with a Nexus S running Android 4.1.2. I always get the prompt when opening the fourth external link.

Comment 12

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Hi Sebastian, I still had this issue and had the phone in Orlando, but also a crammed schedule. But I think I found the reason: I hadn't set a default browser so I always got asked which browser I wanted to use to open the link. After setting Nightly as default browser and opening a bunch of links, the dialog got shown.

Comment 13

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

So you always opened the browser using the switcher dialog? I still get the prompt when doing this multiple times (On an Android 5 device at least).

Comment 14

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Opened the same links from the same application but in a different order and didn't get the prompt after a Nightly reset and with the browser selector active.

Comment 15

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

So now I saw the prompt for tab queue after I continued from comment 14. I had noticed that closing a tab will show a similar styled hint after closing a tab (to undo the closing). So it seems that counting the links opened from external applications didn't work before that (no idea about causality).

Comment 16

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

Let's see if we get more reports and STR. Blocking tab-queue-v2 to get back to it when we start to work on/triage the next version.

Comment 17

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